Arthur and Marny Solomon—as individuals and as a married couple—assembled a superlative art collection spanning Old Master prints, 19th-century French paintings, and trailblazing contemporary works. This book documents for the first time some of the finest examples from the more than 260 works in the collection, gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by bequest in 2021. Full-page illustrations and new research accompany the works, some never before published, by Dürer, Tiepolo, Fragonard, Géricault, Corot, Delacroix, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Henry Moore, David Smith, Kenneth Noland, and Larry Poons, among many others. 

Marina Kliger is the Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art; A. Cassandra Albinson is the Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of European Art; and Casey Kane Monahan is the Cunningham Senior Curatorial Assistant for the Collection, all in the Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums. 

With contributions by A. Cassandra Albinson, Marjorie (Jerry) B. Cohn, Elisa Germán, Joachim Homann, Marina Kliger, Joseph Leo Koerner, Kacper Kolęda, Tai Mitsuji, Casey Kane Monahan, Clemens A. Ottenhausen, Nora Rosengarten, Sarah C. Rosenthal, Elizabeth M. Rudy, Talitha Maria G. Schepers, Cambra Sklarz, Miriam Stewart, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Natalia Ángeles Vieyra.

The exhibitionThe Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond is on display at the Harvard Art Museums from May 24 through August 17, 2025.

The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond is made possible through the generosity of Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, whose extraordinary bequest demonstrates their deep commitment to the study of art. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Care of the Collection Endowment Fund, the Mariot F. Solomon Care of Collections Fund, and the Martha Tedeschi Exhibition Fund, made possible by the Lunder Foundation—Peter and Paula Lunder Family.